Tetration

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Etymology

Template:PIE word From Template:Affix, from the fact that tetration is in fourth place after addition, multiplication, and exponentiation. The word was Template:Coinage (1912–1985).

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Noun

1. Template:Lb The arithmetic operator consisting of repeated exponentiation, by analogy with exponentiation being repeated multiplication and multiplication being repeated addition, $b^{}a$ denoting $a$ to the power of $a$ to the power of $\dots$ to the power of $a$, in which $a$ appears $b$ times.

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